Natural Selection

This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.

"...as the solution. This locally shot black comedy, like Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, examines the bizarre feedback loop..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Coach's Corner

Any Given Sunday bites, but no worse than the Coach's prognostications last week. Old wisdom: The Colts are the best in the league. New wisdom: Titans may be for real.

"...movie about the National Football League -- directed by Oliver Stone, starring Al Pacino, with plenty of Cameron Diaz..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Postmarks

Light rail, affordable housing, and reverse racism.

"...did not enjoy the movie or does not like Oliver Stone films; however, I am very surprised at the..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column

Any Given Sunday

Stone's tale of a professional football team is full of excess, machismo, and a ripped-out eyeball.

"...Directed by: Oliver Stone. Starring: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Cameron..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...material (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown); Oliver Stone uncovers football's front-office conspiracies in Any Given Sunday;..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bringing Out the Dead

"...up till now she's been the actor's equivalent of Stoned Wheat Thins -- and judging from her performance here..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Destruction as Beauty

Profile of local alternative band Trail of Dead; explication of their new album Madonna

"...tear it all down: "When all your Gods/Turn to stone/Throw them all/Out the door."..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Dick

"...applied to the Nixon years in the form of Oliver Stone's pedantic Nixon, but Fleming (The Craft, Threesome) goes..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Don't Blame the Movies

"...is as bad as the couple in Louisiana suing Oliver Stone for the death of their family member (and..."

May 28, 1999 Column

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...GET REAL D: Simon Shore; with Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain...."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

It's a Mystery to Me

"...too different -- there's Parker's other series protagonist, Jesse Stone, sheriff of the sleepy little town of Paradise, Mass.,..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

A League of Their Own

"...didn't work out, nor did the aborted attempt by Oliver Stone to direct Wright's screenplay with Al Pacino playing..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

SXSW Records

Jeff Beck

"...little firepower -- the Wacos, led by the notorious Oliver Reed doppelganger Jonboy Langford, have nevertheless gotten the action..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Roll 'Em

March

"...Oliver Stone executive-produced this film about a rookie cop whose..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

Dance With Me

"...story is entirely true. A talented new writer named Oliver Stone revealed Hayes' attitude as another ignorant American, thinking..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

"...D: Oliver Stone (1991)..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Football and Parades

"...know the event from the Zapruder footage, if not Oliver Stone's JFK or the plethora of books on the..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Funny Games

Austrian moralist Haneke fashions a tense drama from the sadistic games people play.

"...off-screen, the horrific aftershocks are as unnerving as anything Oliver Stone or Wes Craven have shown us. As Peter..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Bigas Luna; with Romane Bohringer, Oliver Martinez, Aitana Sanchez Gijon, Didier Bezace, Aldo Maccione...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Plump Fiction

"...unfunny take on the films of Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone, and even with the considerable talents of Davidson..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Coach's Corner

"...Oliver Stone's JFK is a well-researched documentary compared to this..."

July 31, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Little Boy Blue

"...Savage (best remembered as the doomed combat photographer in Oliver Stone's Salvador). Savage, in fact, is so creepy here..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...D: Warren Beatty; with Beatty, Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Josh Malina, Jack Warden, Christine Baranski, Don Cheadle,..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Scanlines

"...Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson star in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. You'd think that if some..."

April 17, 1998 Screens Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...filled out the sound for everybody from the Rolling Stones to the Georgia Satellites. The man is a living..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Keeping Up Appearances

Community Relations Coordinator... or Juggler?

"...her already liberal use of superlatives when talking about Oliver Stone ("He was so wonderful. He was so kind..."

March 6, 1998 Books Feature by Jay Hardwig

Into the Pink

Interview With Filmmaker and Novelist Gus Van Sant

"...I was thinking specifically of something that I'd heard Oliver Stone say about U-Turn. He was saying the opposite..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Screens Feature by Sid Moody

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

"...movies as well as the stupendous camerawork of longtime Oliver Stone cinematographer Robert Richardson, whose combination of film stocks..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Interview With Filmmaker Errol Morris

"...sought-after cinematographers -- he has shot nearly all of Oliver Stone's films, as well as films for John Sayles..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Jason Silverman

Stone Soul Booksigning

Interview With Filmmaker and Author Oliver Stone

"...Oliver Stone at the Paramount photograph by Minh Oliver Stone..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Edward Lagrossa

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